Jackie Stewart: Oh no, not again...

Fatal accidents were a tragic feature of F1 in the 1960s and 70s and Jackie Stewart lost many friends and colleagues

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[starlionblue]

Imagine being trapped in your car upside down. You can't move and your racing suit is soaked in fuel. The piping hot engine could ignite the fuel any second and you don't know where the paramedics are or if they'll even get to you in time. That's what Jackie saw that terrible day. He had every reason to be upset about this. His efforts to make Formula One safer are his greatest contribution to the sport, not just his 27 wins and 3 world championships.

[wordreet]

We should thank Sir Jackie for allowing Lewis Hamilton to say "ti was actually quite a nice shunt", when describing his backwards crash from around 180mph!

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Thank you Jackie.. We owe you, big time. I'd love to shake your hand mate.

[nightmare2271]

@wordreet what crash was lewis talking about?

[argh1989]

@Wallbreaker91 No they wouldn't because probably they would be dead already.

[argh1989]

@Acme111 Especially if you keep in mind that the named people in the video make about a tenth of that list, I'd guess.

[thevmanvj]

There's more...Graham Hill, who ditched his car had to borrow spanners (or wrenches) from spectators' cars to get the steering wheel off. Then, after finally getting him the ambulance, the driver lost his way to the hospital. When Jackie finally came to, he found himself naked (Graham Hill took off his driving suit, because it was soaked with Aviation Fuel, which is terribly bad harmful to the skin), lying on a canvas stretcher, on a concrete floor, littered with cigarette butts.

[birneFT]

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[JeffGordonFanForLife]

the first pic of jackie looks like kyle busch

[91730dlm]

Bruce was killed testing a Can-Am car not a Formula 1 car, But never the less safety was pathetic in those days

[penske13]

that was spectacular......and heart wrenching.

[jgmagoo1]

I feel that US Indy Car racing is now in the same boat. Very poor and unsafe tracks with concrete walls and catch fences and very fast cars.

The street circuits that Indy Cars race on (Long Beach especially) are ridiculous also. Like trying to fly a fighter plane in a gymnasium.

Formula One (with the exception of Monaco) has far superior tracks..

[gerardvng]

this man is big!